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...chemotherapy sessions (battling a recurrence of the cancer that had first struck him when he was 23), but was eager to do what he always loved--talk about TV. Walking into the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel, he looked gaunt and thin, a baseball cap covering his bald head. It took real guts to show up at this sybaritic show-biz haunt so boldly announcing his illness. But for Tartikoff, it was a statement. Not of some corny TV-movie sentiment (How brave!) but just about the proportion of things. These folks were busy making deals, doing business, being...
...Stewart replied, "I don't think you'd find me very interesting these days." He had always been meticulous in presenting himself to the world; now, with Gloria gone, the masque was over. He stopped playing Jimmy Stewart. In a recent news clip, painful to see, he was bald, gaunt, liver-spotted, nearly unrecognizable. Yet he waved, as airily as possible, to the camera--an act both reflexive and heroic...
Sunday morning at St. Louis' Kingshighway Baptist Church could pass for a slow day at a retirement-home chapel. The dwindling flock is a sea of white hair and bald heads. And the service, which kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway...
TIME: You were once famously bald. Now you've grown your hair...
...Connor: It has to do with growing up. I wouldn't want to say there's anything wrong with [being bald], because I felt very feminine. But I guess I was thinking if I didn't have any hair, I wouldn't have any recollection of who I was. That's not why I did it in the first place. But it became that. And it did become then, after years, a thing I would do almost as punishment to myself. I wanted to pretend to be tough...